Sentence examples for command of a ship from inspiring English sources

Chase has been promised command of a ship by the owners.

For five years she acted as hostess to a brother who was given command of a ship on the Thames which was used as a reformatory training establishment for young 1st offenders.

He was in command of a ship close to the shore the night before the invasion that had been ordered to signal the location of the landing beach to the invading forces.

"The pilot has absolute total command of that airplane just like any captain has command of a ship," said Frederick Dubinsky, the head of the pilots' union, the Air Line Pilots Association, at United.

In 1836 Lord Glenelg offered Sir John the lieutenant-governorship of Antigua, and afterwards of Van Diemen's Land, or Tasmania, which latter he accepted, with the condition that he might be allowed to resign it, if, on a war breaking out, he were tendered the command of a ship.

It's Your Ship Captain Abrashoff assumed command of a ship that was rated the worst in the navy.

The English buccaneer William Dampier visited New Hanover, New Britain, and New Ireland in command of a Royal Navy ship.

In 1944 he was given command of a landing ship for the D-day invasion.

Whatever the case, it seems clear today that his successor was given command of a sinking ship.

During the Seven Years' War between Great Britain and France (1756 63) he saw action in the Bay of Biscay, was given command of a captured ship, and took part in the siege of Louisburg in Nova Scotia and in the successful amphibious assault against Quebec.

In 1883, he was given his first command of a Navy ship, the, with orders to sail to Alaska.